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I'm stuck with PHP version 5.1.6 due to this being the latest package avaliable for Centos 5.

CiviCRM 2.2.1 works fine on this version of PHP except for one function introduced in PHP5.2.

Simple enough to patch:
to the parser.php file add the function into the top of the script:
if ( !function_exists('sys_get_temp_dir') )
{
    // Based on http://www.phpit.net/
    // article/creating-zip-tar-archives-dynamically-php/2/
    function sys_get_temp_dir()
    {
        // Try to get from environment variable
        if ( !empty($_ENV['TMP']) )
        {
            return realpath( $_ENV['TMP'] );
        }
        else if ( !empty($_ENV['TMPDIR']) )
        {
            return realpath( $_ENV['TMPDIR'] );
        }
        else if ( !empty($_ENV['TEMP']) )
        {
            return realpath( $_ENV['TEMP'] );
        }

        // Detect by creating a temporary file
        else
        {
            // Try to use system's temporary directory
            // as random name shouldn't exist
            $temp_file = tempnam( md5(uniqid(rand(), TRUE)), '' );
            if ( $temp_file )
            {
                $temp_dir = realpath( dirname($temp_file) );
                unlink( $temp_file );
                return $temp_dir;
            }
            else
            {
                return FALSE;
            }
        }
    }
}

Is it possible to add this to the trunk to save me patching each release?

Adrian